The Gender Gap in Occupational Role Attainment: A Social Dominance Approach

The authors present archival evidence that men disproportionately hold occupational roles that enhance group-based inequality and that women disproportionately hold roles that attenuate group-based inequality. The authors found evidence for 3 processes that may contribute to this pattern: self-selec...

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Published in:Journal of personality and social psychology 1997-01, Vol.72 (1), p.37-53
Main Authors: Pratto, Felicia, Stallworth, Lisa M, Sidanius, Jim, Siers, Bret
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Aged
Analysis of Variance
Attitudes
Biological and medical sciences
Career Choice
Dominance
Dominance Hierarchy
Equality
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Gender
Gender differences
Gender Gap
Gender Identity
Hierarchy
Hierarchy, Social
Hiring Practices
Human
Human Sex Differences
Humans
Linear Models
Male
Men
Middle Aged
Occupational psychology
Occupational Roles
Occupational Segregation
Occupational Status
Occupations
Organization and management. Professional relation
Personnel Selection
Psychological Theory
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Role
Roles
Sex Factors
Sex Roles
Sex Stereotypes
Social cognition
Social Dominance
Social dominance theory
Social Inequality
Social Processes
Social psychology
Social Values
Stereotyping
Theories
Women
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Summary:The authors present archival evidence that men disproportionately hold occupational roles that enhance group-based inequality and that women disproportionately hold roles that attenuate group-based inequality. The authors found evidence for 3 processes that may contribute to this pattern: self-selection that is based on gender-linked differences in support for group inequality (social dominance orientation), hiring biases that are based on matching job applicants' group equality values with the hierarchy function of the job, and gender-stereotyped hiring biases. These processes were found across a number of occupations and participant variables. The social systems nature of these processes and the implications of the results for theoretical understandings of gender roles, social inequality, and theories of stereotyping are discussed.
ISSN:0022-3514
1939-1315
DOI:10.1037/0022-3514.72.1.37